"Programming languages are living phenomena: They're born, the lucky ones that don't die in infancy live sometimes long, fruitful lives, and then inevitably enter a period of decline. Unlike real life, the decline can last many, many years as the presence of large legacy codebases means practiced hands must tend the code for decades. The more popular the language once was, the longer this period of decline will be."

I love functional programming.
But imperative programming more matches the way that people actually think. People think in concrete, step-by-step terms: I get out of bed, I take a shower, I brush my teeh, I comb my hair, I get dressed, I eat breakfast, I leave the house, I go to work, I park my car, I walk into the office, I etc, etc, etc. In order to achieve a particular goal, people do each step in a particular order.

Functional (and logic) programming, is more atuned to abstract/mathematical thinking (and the more declarative the programming is, the more it becomes like math). Most people are not adept at that.

Calling other object's "doSomething" or "setSomething" methods is modern equivalent of calling "goto". A single setter may look innocent but try to sequence a number of them and you will have to deal with all the complexity (structure, sequencing, side effects) that leaked out from the object. That's because the control is no longer inside the object but in a caller of the method.